Go “green,” eliminating checks, envelopes and stamps, with the E-Payment Module. Creates on-line ACH electronic payments through TransAction Plus Creates (Accounts Payable recommended).    
Click to download What's New in Version 8.1.

The A/P module helps you schedule payments, batch-print (and re-print) checks and generate accrual financial reports without sacrificing cash-basis tax reporting (adjusts expense to “date cash exchanged”). TransAction Plus required.
See TransAction Plus Product Sheet.

Create professional and flexible invoices and statements for your customers and landlords. Integrates with TransAction Plus (required). Like the A/P module, A/R enables both cash and accrual reporting. 
See TransAction Plus Product Sheet.  

An easy way to maintain the TransAction Plus balance sheet by recording assets and inventories through supporting schedules rather than accounting entries (similar to AFRA). 

Keep track of cash or futures contract status for crops, livestock and inputs. Updates through to TransAction Plus purchases and sales and reports positions in Crop Audit, LifeCycle Budget and the TA+ Contract History Report. TransAction Plus required.          

Scans and links PDF documents to accounting transactions for fast filing and instant recall.  (TransAction Plus and scanner required).  See TransAction Plus Product Sheet.

Custom-design reports and create database queries from TransAction Plus.         

 e.CLIPSE is the only true integrated Management Information System designed to meet the management accounting guidelines of the Farm Financial Standards Council.  Employs Activity Based Costing (ABC) to allocate support center costs and performs Work In Process (WIP) adjustments to financial statements. The crop edition tracks costs by operation, farm and crop from field to market and works with any crop. The Feeding edition automatically allocates all costs including facilities and yardage by phase and/or group for pork, beef, poultry or dairy.  (TransAction Plus and Crop Audit and/or Smart Feeder required.) 
Click to download Crop e.clipse PDF Product Sheet.
Click to download Feeding e.clipse PDF product sheet.

Provides a quick and comprehensive review and adjustment tool for E.CLIPSE allocations.  Packaged with the WIP Inventory Change Report (see below).

Creates a detailed supporting balance sheet schedule for Finished Goods, Work In Process and Raw Materials inventories.  Packaged with the Standard Cost/Vendor Monitor Report (see above).      

Posts Market Value adjustments to E.CLIPSE inventories as well as Lower of Cost/Market computations and posting.     

Records system for feed/livestock inventory control, production analysis and planning. Traces animal inventories and tracks feed movement by ration between stages, locations and groups. Seamless integration with TransAction Plus accounting.
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Adds group identification, accounting and reporting to Smart Feeder and TransAction Plus.  See Smart Feeder Product Sheet.

Build custom Smart Feeder closeout reports using 500 pre-calculated production and financial measures.  See Smart Feeder Product Sheet.

Collect production data in Windows Mobile devices/smartphones and synchronize with Smart Feeder.  See Smart Feeder Product Sheet.

The Commercial Feed Mill Interface transfers feed ticket ingredient/ration/group detail directly into TransAction Plus Accounts Payable and/or generates Accounts Receivable invoices for feed sales. The On-Farm Feed Mill Interface transfers internally-milled feed into Smart Feeder. Compatible with over 25 file formats.  See Smart Feeder Product Sheet.

Transfers kill sheet sales, carcass traits and load distribution data from 10 meat packer formats into TransAction Plus. (Smart Feeder also required.)  See Smart Feeder Product Sheet.

Schedules feed deliveries, monitors group feed budgets and projects sales of animals. (Smart Feeder and Group Tracking required.)  See Smart Feeder Product Sheet.

Comprehensive, flexible breeding-herd management system that supplies full genetic, health and reproductive histories on individual sows, boars and litters through "drill-through" industry-standard reports.  With speed and capacity for largest herds, it performs exclusive batch retrieval and processing and allows comparisons between and within herds. Links livestock inventories and shares common setup with FBS feed/financial records.
Click to download PDF Product Sheet.

PigWINGS is a FREE Windows-based data reporting tool which runs "on top" of version 4 (DOS) PIGCHAMP™. 
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The latest generation of interactive planning and performance monitoring systems, LifeCycle Budget is designed to tightly integrate with the FBS management information suite.  A database rather than a spreadsheet or pre-defined financial planner, it's unlike any other agricultural software on the market—allowing extremely fast and flexible projections and montoring.
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Developed by financial consultant Roy C. Ferguson II, the system adapts proven performance measurements used by other industries to production agriculture.  Automatically calculates 28 ratios and indices, including the proprietary "Total Operating Benefit." Links with TransAction Plus.

Generates the Farm Financial Standards Council’s “Sweet Sixteen” ratios and indices. Included with the Ferguson System package.

Complete crop management system improves profitability through better planning, production, and marketing. Complete inventory control , production records and analysis. Quick and easy data entry and editing. Built-in report generator. Integrates with TransAction Plus.
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Convert precision field data to precision financial records. Imports field application and harvest data from a wide range of mapping and precision farming technologies into FBS financial records.  MACH 2.0 saves time by avoiding double-entering data and produces comprehensive field histories, input and crop inventories, landlord settlements and managerial accounting through FBS's integrated farm management suite.

Supported formats include Ag Leader, GreenStar, CNH, AGCO, Trimble, shapefiles and Farm Works.

Record production activity right in the field with a Windows Mobile handheld computer or smart phone, then sync your data back into Crop Audit.

Imports grain tickets from electronic scales and Excel spreadsheets.

Creates offsetting A/P and A/R entries between FBS data files, maintains a “master” chart of accounts, prints consolidated income statements and balance sheets with eliminations columns.

Automatically generates reports from macros using built-in time or Windows Task Scheduler. Reports are instantly accessible in repository and can be opened in Excel or Web browser. This module is also the connection between standard FBS modules and the Farm SeRVey web Dashboard.

The Farm SeRVey™ Executive Dashboard automatically generates graphs, monitors Key Performance Indicators, and triggers alerts directly from FBS SeRVware™ software and many accounting and production programs, spreadsheets, facility monitoring systems and websites. Views in the form of graphs, tables, gauges and maps can be customized by the user and are automatically updated as underlying data change.
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Automatically retrieves current and historical futures prices from the DTN website and stores in an Access database connected to LifeCycle Budget, Contracts, Smart Feeder Planning and Crop Audit crop inventories.

Imports accounting data, vendors and crop records from spreadsheets or text files. Ideal for importing or converting from other programs, importing invoices from vendors or periodic batch entries like depreciation or contract grower payments.